Hasp and staple device



D. RUSSAKDV.

HASP AND STAPLE DEVICE.

APPLICAIION FILED N OV. I9, |919. K 1,369,937, Patented Mar. 1, 1921.

DAVID RUssAKov, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAsP AND STAPLE Dnvjien. i

-Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented"Maienlieei;

Y Application filed November 19, 1919. jSeral No. 339,195..`

To all whom t .may concem:

Be it known that I, DAVID RUssAKov, .a citizen Vof the United States, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hasp and Staple Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hasp-and-staple devices. Its principal object is to provide simple and e'ective self-contained means for holding the hasp upon the staple in suchmanner that the hasp may be readily applied to and released from the staple as desired, while maintaining the capacity of the staple for holding a separable locking device, such as a padlock, for securing the hasp and staple together.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, I' have illustrated these improvements in what I now consider to be their most advantageous form, but I contemplate various changes and modifications therefrom within the scope of the appended claim. In these drawings Figure 1 is a face view of the deJ vice in locked condition; Fig. 2 is a medial longitudinal section of the hasp and locking element and a side view `of the hasp showing the operation of applying or removing the hasp; FiO. 3 is a face view of the hasp alone; and Fig. 4 is a face view of the staple and locking element thereon.

The hasp 10 having the butt 11 and the hinge 12, as well as rthe staple 14 rigidly secured upon the plate 15, the hasp having a slot-like opening 16 for the staple, are according to well known practice, and these particular forms of hasp and staple are here shown merely as convenient types for illustration.

Upon the staple 14 I mount loosely the hasp-locking element 17, which is shown'as a flat disk having a substantially central hole 18, the staple 14 passing through this hole, and the element' 17 being capable of easy sliding movement throughout the eX- tent of the substantially U-sha ed exposed portion of the hasp. Where t e staple vis of the ordinary kind having free pointed ends adapted to be driven into the wood this element `17 may be an ordinary washer such as is commonly used with bolts and nuts; but where the staple 14 is rigidly secured upon a plate as 15 this locking element 17 is,

provided with a split or out at 19 whereby the washer-like disk may be opened there enter the recesses 2O and 21,

-and vplaced upon the .staple and the'nreformed into its substantially` flat shape.v .T he lockingelement 17istherefore permanently held upon the staple and is always available for use, this feature avoiding the annoyance due to the loss of separate vmeans for holding the parts together.

rIhe slot-like opening 16 in the hasp is modifiedl at 20 and 21 by the provision o-f an enlargement thereof at a localized area, which localized area is substantially midway of the ends of the slot 16 where the staple has a rounded top, where a form of element 17 is employed as shown, and where the slot 16 is merely of such length as to accommodate readily the staple. 20 and 21 are in the formof recesses eX- tending through the thickness of the hasp there and away from the slot 16 in substantially opposite directions, and the width and length of theseenlargements 20 and'21 are such that when the hasp-locking element 17 assumes some otherl position than that of its direction toward the o and on attempting'to pull the .hasp away from the staple the element 17 becomes an The enlargements penings 20and 21, v

effective obstruction thereto onv onelegor the other of the staple, for instance as shown in Fig. 1. The locking effect is had whatever the bodily position of the combined haspfand-staple may be, and the device is therefore of marked importance in connection with boxes the lids of which it isdesired to hold securely, notwithstanding that the boXes may be turned over from time to time on all sides or ends, as in handling. V

In applying the hasp to the staple the operator grasps the locking element 17 with one hand and directs it toward the openings 20 and 21 while the hasp is being applied with the other hand. As soon asvedge portions of the element 17 have entered lthe recesses 20 and 21 the hasp readily slips upon the staple. In removing'rthe hasp the element 17 is similarly turned by hand so as to and thereupon the hasp may be readily withdrawn.

The hasp-and-staple parts may be made of the usual materials and according to methods Well understood. The locking element 17 is preferably a metal disk or plate similar to the ordinary Washer in the construction shown.

I claim` A hasp-and-staple device comprising a staple, a hasp having a slot-like opening therethrough for the staple, and a hasplocking element comprising a substantially circular flat disk-like plate having a hole y of the substantially centrally therethrough and slidably mounted on said staple with the staple in said hole, the hasp being provided with a pair of substantially oppositely disposed recesses eXtending from said slot-like opening, said recesses being formed to admit Y assage therethrough of edge p0rtions ot said hasp-locking element when said element is directed edgeWise toward said recesses iny applying the hasp to or removing it from saita le 

